The advent of the affordable private car, and the success of the motor lorry after ... and the railways ceased to be profitable. British Railways' last steam locomotive, 'Evening Star', rolled ...

Home movies help tell the story of how bands of volunteers got together to save some of Britain's railway tracks and the steam engines that ran on them.

The loco had four smaller-than-normal diesel traction motors that could be combined ... portrayed as the bright future for the railway alongside steam locomotives that were then very much still ...

An iconic steam engine was pictured in Carlisle over the weekend in the first of this year’s growing list of steam excursions ...

With normal services suspended for the winter, volunteers at the Apedale Valley Light Railway have been carrying out ...

A vintage steam engine has been helping mark a railway attraction's 150th anniversary. Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway - known by locals as La'al Ratty, meaning little railway in Cumbrian dialect ...

Two steam specials have been announced to celebrate 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. In 1825, George Stephenson's steam-powered Locomotion No 1 travelled 26 miles between ...

THIEVES broke into the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway and got away with specialist tools and equipment including a ...

On February 3, 1925, at exactly 10 AM, the train was flagged off from platform number two of Victoria Terminus railway ...

Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway runs trains run from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog and Caernarfon A shortage of coal is worrying vintage steam railway operators as they welcome visitors ...